Disruption is a lovely geological word. It suggests shaky ground and lava flows, destabilisation and disorganisation. Most people working in health care today are fed up with disruption though. Most would be perfectly happy if they never saw any more funding cuts, job freezes and reorganisations. Unfortunately we know that disruption is an everyday occurrence in a health care system going through a long, slow, seismic unsettling. But disruption need not be negative, and the Critical Physiotherapy Network is one small example of how a group of people are trying to change the rhetoric surrounding disruption and change. The key to this new approach lies with the ideas of openings … [Read more...] about New: Disruption
New: Significance
Physiotherapists are, by reputation, quite practical, pragmatic, literal people who are generally modest about their work and conservative in their approach to practice. You can see this in the books, journal articles and promotional work that was undertaken by the profession in the 20th century. In recent years, we have learnt that we need to be better at self promotion, but many find this quite challenging. We are not brash, and we don't like to strut. But one aspect of our work has suffered as a result, and it may hold an important clue to the way physiotherapy may need to change in the future. Physiotherapy is transformative. We know this from the millions of patients who, … [Read more...] about New: Significance
New: Encroachment
One of the ways that physiotherapists have recently looked to secure greater influence in the health care system has been to take on role previously done by others. Extended scopes now include limited prescribing rights and some invasive procedures like injecting, cannulation and bronchoscopy. We now also have new consultancy, advisory and leadership roles that are changing the nature of our practice. And one of the most popular extensions that can be taken up by the whole profession has involved the drift towards public health medicine. Physiotherapists and others are looking at the possibility of offering 'wrap-around' care where once they were specialists in discrete areas of … [Read more...] about New: Encroachment